Case



c. 1.. ARMISTEAD ET AL QASE Filed July 26 1923 g'wuentoz ceeds,

LESLIE, MISSOURI.

; fram s as 15,19 5. v "UNITED," STA oLAnENoE .L. ABMISTEAD AND saivru SIGNORS or O E-T IRD T0 JEssE -s P EN OFFICE.

ELI. BATES, or SULLIVAN, MISSOURI, AS- R. FARRAR Ann EDWARD MATHIAS, OF

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' Application filed July 26, i923. serial No. 653,947.

To all whom it may concern: I e

Be it known that we, CLARENCE L, ARMI- STEAD and SAMUEL BATES,

residing at Sullivan,

United States, county of Franklin and have invented a now an which the following is this application is a case, but not exclusively to c invention aims to provide mentioned which may be packing and unpacking,

citizens 'of the State of- Missouri, (1 useful Case, of

a specification.

The device forming the subject matter ofadaptcd primarily he ontain eggs.

a case of the kind opened readily for and for purposes of display: and, further, to provide a case which may be used conveniently 1n connection with the machine for candling eggs.

shown in my co-pending No. 653,946, filed on the 1923.

application Serial 26th day of July,

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that invention appertains.

type to which the With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the descriptionprodetails of construction the inventionresides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure constructed in accordanc of the invention 1 shows in side elevation, aIcase e with the invention'; Figure 2 is an end elevation; Figure 3 is a longitudinal section;

Figure 4: is a section on the lineHof Figure 3; Figure'5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Figure 3;

Figure 6 is a perspective of the angular retainers.

The case forming the this application is made of wood or any view showing one subject matter of other suitable material. and embodies a sec tion 1 and a section 2.

Each section comprises side walls 3 ande disposed a t-right angles to each other and connectedto end walls 5 which are in the form of right triangles. Intermediate section, a partition '6 is secured to the side.

the ends of each walls 3 and 4, the partition 6 being in the form of a right triangle,

1 in shape to the end wal and correspondlng l 5. Cleats 7 are in the I separable parts, about the angles formed by cooperating applied to the outer surfaces of the end walls 5 and extend along the diagonal edges of thesaid walls, the cleats being held in place by securingelements 8, engaging the end walls 5, the cleats on the sections 1 and 2 being in abutment, when the case is set up as disclosed in Figure 2. Hooks 9 are mounted on the cleats 7 of the section 2 and are adapted to engage with keepers 10 on the cleats 7 of the section 1, the hooks and the keepers constituting latches, and it will we understood that any sort of latch may be used at the place indicated. Keepers 11, preferably in the form of staples, are inserted through the walls 3 and 4 of each of the sections 1 and 2 into engagement with the partitions 6 and are located adjacent to the angles formed by the walls 3 and 4 of the sections 1 and2. Angular retainers 12 are provided, the same including wings 14 having longitudinal slots 15. The angular retainers 12 extend about the angles defined by the walls 3 and 1 of the sections 1 and 2, as shown in Figure 1, the staples or keepers 11 being received in the slots 15 of the wings 14 of the retainers 12. Through the keepers 11 may be inserted. securing members 16, such as cotter pins, seals or anythingelse which may be at hand. The end walls 5 of the section 2 are provided with projecting dowel pins 17, adapted to be received in recesses 18 formed in the edge of the walls 5 of the section 1.

The general construction of the device is such that the constituent sections 1 and 2 walls of said parts, and means on said parts for engaging the retainers.

2. A receptacle of rectangular cross section, divided along a diagonal plane to form separable parts, transverse cooperating triangular partitions in said parts, keepers on said parts and engaged with the partitions,

divided along a diagonal plane to form- 5 tion, divided along a diagonal plane to form separable parts having cooperating triangular end Walls cleats along the inner edges of the end Walls, latches connecting the cleats, and inter-engaging elements on \0 said parts, coacting to prevent relatiye slid:

ing movement between said parts in said diagonal plane.

Intestimony that We claim the foregoing as our own We have hereto a'ffixed our signatures.

CLARENCE L. ARMISWEAD. SAMUEL F.BA In presence of H. O. HOLLOW, N. W. SHADDER. 

